Tweeter Deleter

Deletes old Tweets! 🫡🐦

View help with go run ./cmd/deleter -h

  -force
    	Actually delete tweets. If unset, command only prints number of potentially affected tweets without deleting tweets.
  -verbose
    	Print out all (potentially) deleted tweets
  -year int
    	Maximum allowable tweet age in years (default 10)

Caveat: if you are a Big Poster and have over 3200, this script might have issues. Twitter's user timeline API has a 3200 tweet limit. Good luck with that 🤷

Setup

Create a new Twitter developer account, get "Consumer Keys". Ensure that "App permissions" are set to "Read and Write" if you want deletes (-force) to succeed.

$ TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=<key> TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=<secret> go run ./cmd/deleter -year 5 -force
Please authorize this app: <URL>
Enter PIN: XXXXXXX
Deleting tweets older than 5 years ago (before 2017-11-20 22:04:59.268364 -0800 PST). Dry run: false
Deleted 100 tweets. Dry run: false. Err: <nil>